St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-21
HAVE HAD THEIR WAY,
The CombatiVe Tories Have
Succeeded in PrOclaiming
the National League,
Thus Compelling the Liberal
Unionists to get off the
Political Fence
And Seek Shelter Either With
the Conservatives or the
GladStonians.
A Dangerous Indian Society,"
The Bulgarian Situation
Affairs in Ireland.
Bv cable to the Globe.

By cable to the Globe.
LONDON, Aug. 20.-The combative
Tories have had their way in the matter
of prOclaiming the National league, de-
spite the opposition Of the prudent MEM
bers of the government and the more
cautious Liberal-U UnioniStS. The Irish
peers and the Irish Conservatives in the
house of commons used all the influence
they could command to induce the gov
ernment to proclaim the league, and the
prime minister himself favored the idea.
On the other hand the UniOniSt men,
berS pronounced against it, among
them Joseph. Chamberlain 7. W..
Russell, the leader of the Ulster Union
lists, Jesse Ceilings and Mr.. Courtney.
Mr.. Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland,
received numerous letters from active
LOyalists in Dublin. Belfast and else
where, in which it was urged that such
a step wonld have an irritating effect,
and promote the flow of subscriptions
from the United States. Lord Salisbury
has now determined to adopt vigorous
policy, as far as Ireland is concerned,
and regrets having made concessions to
the Liberal-UnioniStS in the Irish land
bill, which has now been
VIRTUALLY HUNG UP"
The Liberal-UniOniStS will never
again obtain concessions of such mag
nitude from the Tory government. The
Tories, seeing that the UnioniStS have
more to fear from a dissolution than
they have, will not accept second pub
lie humiliation at the bidding of their
allies In the last few weeks nine cleo
tionS have taken place, and the general
result is unmiStakable. In the cOnStit-
uencieS, whatever may be the case in
the house of commons, the Union
lists have ceased to be a
power. The Tories find themselves
in the position of having made great
concessions to men who, nowhere, eX-
cept perhaps in HOrnSey, seem able to
command hundred votes. The three
cOrnered duel has come to an end, and
England has come back to the old stand
up party fight. in which the Liberals, so
long as they have cause in which they
heartily believe to animate them, al
ways win. Many of the UniOniStS will
now drift back to their old party, but
some of them have gone too far to make
that possible, and must join the Tories.
The fact is, the UniOniStS, tC
a great extent, have been servants of
events, and number of them are glad
that the action of the government has
given them an opportunity to return to
the Liberal fold. The recess will be
one of extreme political activity, per-
SiStent and widespread propaganda will
be carried on by the National Liberal
federation and its branches on behalf
of home rule, and the general objects of
the Liberal party. The great bulk of
Mr.. Gladstone'S followers and num-
Der of ParnelliteS will be pressed into
platform service, and vigorous speeches
will ring through the land. The mana
gers of the Gladstone party are confident
that the effect of this movement will
be to complete the conversion of the
country to home rule. The organizers
of the Liberal party are preparing for
general election in the fall, confident
that the government will come to grief
over the Irish land question then, if not
before.
THE KUKA's, A SECRET SOCIETY,
is again exciting the anxiety of the In
dian government, and Lord Dufferin,
the vice-roy of India, has telegraphed
the home government for reinforce
ments to suppress them. This Organi-
zation of fanatical disciples of Ram
Singh, the Sikh reformer, has increased
in numbers of late to an alarming ex-
tent and grave fears are enter
early date is meditated. The teachings
of Gwin Nanak, the founder of the re-
ligiOn they profess, have been widely
departed from in the practice of the
present generation of the SikhS, the aim
of Ram Singh having been not to modify
their creed, but to turn their lives from
luxury and to regulate them according
to the doctrines of purity, sObriety and
abstinence from worldly pleasure taught
in their sacred bOok-the "Granth."
There would be sympathy with such
movement if it were not cOnjOined to
revolutionary political ideas and
aspirations. The sacred writ
ings of the SikhS contain
of their future supremacy in the Pun
jaub, and Ram Singh and his followers
were held to believe that the time was
near at hand for the restoration of the
glOrieS of the race. The fall of the
MOgul empire and the sacking of Delhi,
are believed by the Kukas to have full
fileu one part of the prophecy, and the
accomplishment of the remainder is be-
lieved to be delayed by the
SINS AND PERVERSIoNS
of the present generation. Ram Singh
began to preach his doctrines about
thirty-five years ago, and when at the
height of his influence he is believed
to have had 10000 followers ready to
obey his orders with the unheSitating
alacrity that religion and race fanaticiSm
supplies. The name of KukaS, pOpu-
larry given to them, is due to the vio-
lence of the excited shouting and howl
ing by which their religious meetings
are marked. The new sect became
powerful, and many of its members
entered the service of the native states
as policemen and soldiers until
pressure to bear upon one ma
tive prince to limit the number
of Kukas. he was taken into his pay.
Ram Singh had a score of trusty subor-
dinates in various parts of the Punjaub,
and his messages were conveyed with
increditable CELEBRITY. On the arrival of
mis- eInissary at village, the first disci-
pIe to whom he gave the word would
stop whatever work he had in hand and
proceed with all possible haste to con-
vey Ram Nigh's command on another
stage of its journey. At last Ram Singh,
with his chief colleagues, had to be re-
removed to British Burmah, where
most of them have since died.
But If the Kukas no longer re-
main as sect, they are still
in existence as a secret society, which is
both powerful and extensive. The re-
cent hnfriendly attitude of the Maharo-
jah Duleep Singh toward the Indian
government gives Increased Importance
10 this curious association, which In the
past has exploited the fanaticism of the
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